Hutchins

Respondent Lynn Louis Hutchins (hereinafter “respondent”), a licensed California attorney at law, was charged in a misdemeanor complaint with aiding and abetting and conspiring with certain persons acting as runners or cappers in the solicitation of business for him. Business and Professions Code section 6151 defines a runner or capper as “any person . . . acting in any manner or in any capacity as an agent for an attorney at law ... in the solicitation or procurement of business for such attorney at law . . . .” Business and Professions Code section 6152 makes it “unlawful for any person ... to act as a runner or capper for any such attorneys or to solicit any business for any such attorneys . . . .” Business and Professions Code section 6153 makes such act a misdemeanor.

The amended misdemeanor complaint specifically charged in count I “[t]hat on or about 5:20 P.M., on November 8, 1973, and for a period of 48 hours thereafter, at and in the County of Los Angeles, and City of Los Angeles, State of California, a misdemeanor, to wit: Violation of Section 6152 of the California Business and Professions Code of the State of California was committed by Lynn Louis Hutchins…